Telling Stories and Stories on Film (Bonus)

Telling Stories - I think it is kind of strange if you honestly sit and think about the conversations that you have in a single day, then think about how many of them are stories... and how many of those stories actually happened in that order? It is amazing to think that at least in my case 95% of my conversations are stories. Really, history in itself is a story then right? We only know about these famous generals from battles because fellow soldiers or just observers of the battle came back and passed on the story of what they witnessed. Which was then in turn passed on, and passed on until we have what we now know. What I would like to know is how many of those hero's are actual hero's'? In this it says that "all films have a beginning, middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order" Which I find funny because how many people in this country see a movie based off of a historical event and they then know that as history. So, if all our stories are flipped around to make them more interesting, does that mean our countries history is flipped around too?

Stories on Film - This reading I just found interesting. I never knew that the Wizard of Oz was actually shot in Kansas, I mean obviously the whole castle isn't a tourist stop but I thought the rest was real. When they spoke about Star Wars I find it amazing they can edit it still, I mean the first movie of the saga the animation is good for that time but it is nothing compared to what we see now. So the fact that we can go back and edit and not be able to tell I find amazing. Overall I like the readings, and I actually learned a lot.

" Telling stories" and "Stories on film" bonus(kyle)

Before I read this I never took the time to think of how memories are like short narrative. The idea that were constantly constructing stories never crossed my mind. I had never looked at a memory in this way. When you're able to visualize something such as a reading it help a lot in deciding whether you understand it or not. I agree with how they talked about selecting events is important in creating a build up into the story. When you tell a memory to a friend you select the best parts or the most important events that happened.

In the second reading "stories on film" it was harder for me to understand at first. After reading the beginning i began to see the importance that appearance plays on how someone judges something or makes an opinion. Like they mentioned in the passage the good things in the story were geometric shapes and the bad things were strange shapes and very twisted. This allows for the reader to distinguish between good and bad right from the beginning of the story. This also ties into what Eddie Izzard said which was 70% what you look like. Many of the ways you take the movie Wizard Of Oz is based off of appearance.